Olene Brumbles Jones Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Most of this collection has been digitized. Some items have not beed digitized due to copyright or other logistical issues.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1217
What's in the full collection?: Copy of Navy discharge from 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.
Full biography: Olene Brumbles Jones (1918-1988), of South Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1945.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Navy -- WAVES
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Olene Brumbles Jones and three friends; Olene Brumbles Jones (far left, in civilian attire) poses with three friends, circa 1944. The two women in the middle wear the WAVES dress blue uniform.

: WAVES at dinner; Olene Brumbles (seated second from right) poses with seven fellow WAVES at a meal table, circa 1944. Brumbles wears a white shirt and a seaman's tie. Other WAVES wear seersucker shirts and seaman's ties or dress blue uniforms; some are smoking cigarettes.

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